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Mike Visaggio and Kinetic Element: NewsJannis' PHPRss class - http://www.jannis.to/Tue, 18 Dec 2018 01:02:58 -0800PROG DAY 2015http://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#42
Just got back from another Prog Day. I have been attending Prog Day in Chapel Hill NC for sight years and RoSFest in Gettysburg PA for six years as I maintain my relationships and contacts with prog movers and shakers and freinds and fans and it really is like an extended family. No matter our disagreements on other stuff we are solidy united because of our love for prog rock and the people who support it and create it. These two events are now the most important prog festivals in the eastern US although MorseFest in Nashville may catch up in time. Kinetic Element has sold about 300 copies of Travelog. Please go have a listen to our music at www.melodicrevolutionrecords.com/kineticelement/travelog and perhaps favor us with a purchase. It is also available from our distributors who are linked on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/kineticelementband. I hope to have announcements soon about a couple of events next spring.]]>http://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#42Mon, 07 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0700The M is for Music, the V is for Voltage - Mike Visaggio and Kinetic Element - NewsKE has a PR firm!http://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#41
KE is working with William James and Glass Onyon PR for the next four months to drum up the press we need. There are a few reviews in existence for Travelog. We anticipate many more. The comments coming in from people who have the CD are all positive and we have a solid 3.5 stars out of 5 pretty much across the board with some 5-star ratings from people on www.progarchives.com. The band is taking a break and I hope to be back out there in the fall. If not I plan to assemble a solo project band like I did back in 2006. PROG LIVES, people. Many thanks to all those who contributed to Kickstarter. Happy Independence Day, everyone.]]>http://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#41Sat, 04 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0700The M is for Music, the V is for Voltage - Mike Visaggio and Kinetic Element - NewsKINETIC ELEMENT NEW ALBUMhttp://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#40

Hi everybody all over this island Earth!

Kinetic Element is pleased and kind of amazed that the making of Travelog is over and the product is now available.

Travelog is a 70-minute CD or download and features five fairly long progressive rock tracks. You might say "it will reward the patient listener" and prog fans are nothing if not patient with long pieces of music.

We began recording over two years ago but had to scrap a good deal of work when two of our members departed the band. The pieces that are on Travelog are largely the result of creativity that occurred at the end of 2013 and the determination that we could learn to record ourselves. This we have done.

The band members are the core trio of Mike Visaggio (keyboards) Todd Russell (guitars) and Michael Murray (drums), along with Mark Tupko (bass) who joined us a a permanent member about a year ago, and we enlisted the talents of three excellent singers to help is complete the recording. They are Dimetrius LaFavors (Odin's Court), Michell Schrotz (Brave and While Heaven Wept) and Mike Florio (New York area solo artist). All have great resumes and plenty of music on line that you may access.

The physical CDs may be purchased there or directly from us. Downloads are available at both sites and will be on all the download services in the next couple of weeks.

We encourage you to go have a listen to this excursion into symphonic/neo style prog rock. We hope you will leave comments or a review and spread the word to your music loving friends.

Kinetic Element is playing its first shows in nearly two years this week. We headlined Orion Studios in Baltimore with Michelle's band Brave this pase Friday night. This coming Saturday (June 6) we will be at the New Jersey Proghouse venue Roxy and Duke's in Dunellen NJ supporting Lo-Fi Resistance and Jimmy Robinson. (www,njproghouse.com)

Thanks for staying with us during the five and a half years since the release of Powered by Light. We have persevered, we succeeded in raising a good chunk of money on Kickstarter and some of you helped us! Your vote of confidence has given birth to this new CD.

Prog Lives. It keeps us young.

Mike Visaggio (with Todd Russell, Michael Murray and Mark Tupko)

]]>http://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#40Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0700The M is for Music, the V is for Voltage - Mike Visaggio and Kinetic Element - NewsRecent Events Dec. 2013http://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#39
Back in late August we reached an impasse with two of our members. George DeCola and Len Dupilka are no longer with us. We wish them well in their future endeavors.

The remaining three members (Mike Visaggio, Todd Russell and Michael Murray) will apparently remain the permanent members of the band. We have been working on a second CD the last year and only since the departure of Len and George has real progress been made. We were sidetracked into a different purpose for two and a half years. We saw a big rush of new music composed in September and October and began arranging the pieces, laying down click tracks, rehearsing to those click tracks, and now we are beginning a capture process of the drums.

Michael broke out his Sonar X-1 recording software and for the first time we are self-recoding. Unfortunately we cannot work on it every day so it is still hard to say when we will have a new CD for you, but we know what music will be on it and we're going all out to get it done. We anticipate that Jaymi Millard of Nashville TN will bring his talents on Rickenbacker bass to the CD via file sharing. We do not as yet have a singer firmly committed.

The thrust of the new CD lyrically will be "Travelog: A Quest for Liberty." We see many troubling things in the world threatening all aspects of personal freedom and we aim to stand up for the individual and the liberty that is one's birthright.

Thank you for staying with us. We'll keep you posted. Merry Christmas!

]]>http://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#39Sun, 22 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0800The M is for Music, the V is for Voltage - Mike Visaggio and Kinetic Element - NewsKINETIC ELEMENT SIGNED TO MELODIC REVOLUTION RECORDShttp://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#38
I had the distinct privilege of playing with the Afterparty band at Rites of Spring Festival (ROSfest) this past May 4 and Melodic Revolutions Records' entrepreneur Nick Katona announced that Kinetic Element is signed to his label as of that date. So now we have an additional reason to move along the recording of our second CD. It has been a battle, as many of you have noted, what with all our personnel changes and change in direction to have a cover-band repertoire so we can get out and play here in Richmond, but there IS new music being composed and recorded and I am thankful to say I have found a lot of interest in the prog world for what we're cooking up. Melodic Revolution has artists in several genres. I invite you to visit them at www.melodicrevolution.com and see what Mr. Nick has signed to his label! It's all good music.]]>http://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#38Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700The M is for Music, the V is for Voltage - Mike Visaggio and Kinetic Element - NewsKE now a 5-piecehttp://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#37
http://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#37Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800The M is for Music, the V is for Voltage - Mike Visaggio and Kinetic Element - NewsKINETIC ELEMENT RESTRUCTUREDhttp://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#36
http://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#36Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700The M is for Music, the V is for Voltage - Mike Visaggio and Kinetic Element - NewsNew Bass Player for KE quitshttp://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#35
http://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#35Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700The M is for Music, the V is for Voltage - Mike Visaggio and Kinetic Element - NewsPROG AWARDS and PROGRESSION MAGAZINEhttp://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#34
www.progawards.it for Best Debut CD of 2009. Well OK, we didn't make the cut past the 40 nominees. But somebody likes the record out there. In addition, we have been given a feature article in Issue #59 of Progression Magazine www.progressionmagazine.com And writer Eric Harabadian has been nice to us! We are looking for shows now, as the band is sounding very good in rehearsal and we aim to resume performing as soon as possible.Thanks for sticking with us!]]>http://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#34Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700The M is for Music, the V is for Voltage - Mike Visaggio and Kinetic Element - NewsNew Bass Player for KEhttp://mikevisaggio.com/news.html#33
It's a new day in KE land. Last night we welcomed David Donlon of Springfield VA into the band as our new bass guitarist.

David showed up in a most unusual fashion, in a way we could not have foreseen. He saw the last e-mail I sent you all, and asked to try out. David actually contacted me back in 2006 when I was trying to put together a band to perform my solo CD Starship Universe but circumstances were not right at the time for him to start driving down to Richmond to play. After some good e-mails and a couple of good phone conversations, David took it on himself to obtain the recordings and learn them, and showed up here on April 17. He played the music as if he'd been in the band since 2006. It was a perfectly fitting puzzle piece. Some of what we've learned about each other has convinced me that the invisible Hand was once again at work in bringing him to us.

Like the other three members of KE David's "musical resume" is sparse. All of us had to wait a very long time to be able to be in a prog rock band. All we can say is, we're doing it now. We ask, as always, for your support, and will do all we can to earn it.

We will be putting our live show back together and are very interested now in playing out. If you can help us find a show we'd like to hear from you. You guys are the reason we exist. Thanks for your patience. I can't wait to start doing new music with this newly energized Kinetic Element.